Hi, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote (29 Jun 2011 17:46:00 GMT) : > Other reasons to not use tor for certain workloads/environments: [...] > * you have tight latency constraints (not just throughput).
Right. > For example, the subjective experience of telephone calls is > severely degraded by even a 150ms lag, even if the throughput is > minimal. Tor's extra hops add to the latency of any circuit. About this specific example, I've tested VoIP between two Tor hidden services (which means the end-to-end connection has twice as many hops than "normal" Tor), both clients sitting behind poor DSL connections; it results in a constant ~1s lag and no noticeable throughput problem. Regarding subjective user experience, I would not say mine was "severely degraded". As a matter of fact this configuration transforms conversation a bit; it is slightly slowed down, mostly because you need to wait 1s to be sure the person you're talking with has finished his/her sentence before you jump to the microphone to speak yourself. I will go as far as saying this tiny slow-down can indeed often make the conversation greater and more dense in a certain sense, because every part of it has had more "empty" time to mature and is thus more thoughtful. Bye, -- intrigeri <[email protected]> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | Did you exchange a walk on part in the war | for a lead role in the cage? _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
